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Food and Femininity helps us to further understand why women invest so much energy in foodwork ... [and] reminds us that the pressures surrounding food are immense for women - not just in terms of foodwork but in terms of the implications for their own weight management and the nearly universal goal of thinness. -- Charlotte N. Markey Psychology Today Women do not all react to foodwork in the same uniform manner. Food and Femininity therefore offers a useful exploration of food and the construction of femininities, and demonstrates how food itself can be used as a means by which social inequalities can be uncovered. LSE Review of Books Finally, a book that gives a thorough, scholarly treatment to a phenomenon that affects so many women on a daily basis, sometimes quite painfully: negotiating the ever fraught cultural messages about shopping, cooking, serving, and eating food right, including the exhortations that we should simply relax about these things. -- Julie Guthman, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Mom is in the kitchen making dinner. She is also doing gender, reinforcing stereotypes that a woman's place is in the home. Why are women still responsible for feeding the family in our postfeminist age? Food and Femininity reveals the pleasures-as well as the inequities-of home cooking. -- Christine Williams, University of Texas at Austin, USA A brilliant book that will set the agenda for future debates about gender and food. Combining rich empirical material and persuasive theorizing, Cairns and Johnston demonstrate why contemporary food practices raise crucial issues for feminism. -- Joanne Hollows, Independent Scholar, UK In this path-breaking work, the authors show how femininity is both empowering and constraining for women, and how this tension plays out in the food arena. -- Melanie DuPuis, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Finally, a book that gives a thorough, scholarly treatment to a phenomenon that affects so many women on a daily basis, sometimes quite painfully: negotiating the ever fraught cultural messages about shopping, cooking, serving, and eating food right, including the exhortations that we should simply relax about these things. -- Julie Guthman, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Mom is in the kitchen making dinner. She is also doing gender, reinforcing stereotypes that a woman's place is in the home. Why are women still responsible for feeding the family in our postfeminist age? Food and Femininity reveals the pleasures-as well as the inequities-of home cooking. -- Christine Williams, University of Texas at Austin, USA A brilliant book that will set the agenda for future debates about gender and food. Combining rich empirical material and persuasive theorizing, Cairns and Johnston demonstrate why contemporary food practices raise crucial issues for feminism. -- Joanne Hollows, Independent Scholar, UK In this path-breaking work, the authors show how femininity is both empowering and constraining for women, and how this tension plays out in the food arena. -- Melanie DuPuis, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

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Kate Cairns is an Assistant Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, USA. Josée Johnston is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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